Re: fabric, and old topic but I need some advice

... I often have a silnylon cover over the entire bottom of my hammock and I haven t had any condensation problems. ... Yeah, like that. Works fine. Matthew

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Tim Garner wrote:

>i don`t know that condensation would be a real problem using
>silnylon as an outer cover for the hammock body, as long as the top
>is open or covered w/ a more breathable fabric.

I often have a silnylon cover over the entire bottom of my hammock
and I haven't had any condensation problems.

Risk wrote:

>... I have
>considered making a travel pod with a silnylon bottom that keeps the
>bottom of the hammock dry even in blowing rain and which can be used on
>wet ground for an escape, or when no trees are available.

Yeah, like that. Works fine.

Matthew Takeda
the JOAT

Nathan Ruth

I am also thinking about making making a travel pod as my next DIY project. I was thinking about using sil-nylon, and using velcro to close it up instead of a

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I am also thinking about making making a travel pod as my next DIY project.
I was thinking about using sil-nylon, and using velcro to close it up
instead of a zipper. I was thinking about adding a small patch of netting
above my face to control the condensation. Do you guys think that will be
enough, or will I loose too much heat through the opening? I could just use
ripstop but I would like the extra waterproofing.

Nate

Hammock Engineer

Rick

Nate, A piece of netting over your face will work OK for all but the very lowest temperatures. I have thought about using such a piece in my pod. As to using

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Nate,

A piece of netting over your face will work OK for all but the very
lowest temperatures. I have thought about using such a piece in my pod.
As to using silnylon, I do not recommend it. There is a lot of vapor
escaping from the sleeping bag for its full length. I well remember
unzipping the travel pod at -15 and watching the puff of steam rise into
the canopy of trees over my head when I got up to pee in the middle of
the night.

I think that using silnylon on the top surface of the travel pod is
asking for trouble. Everything inside the pod will get wet and when it
is opened, it will all freeze pretty quickly.

Velcro is evil in the middle of the night. It is noisy and (for me) much
harder to fasten while I am lying in a hammock. A zipper is quick to
close in one motion as I lie back after getting in the hammock. I do
now use a piece of Velcro at each end to suspend the pod along the
length of the hammock and I use a small one foot piece to fasten the two
halves together between my head and the end of the hammock.

Rick

Nathan Ruth wrote:

> I am also thinking about making making a travel pod as my next DIY project.
> I was thinking about using sil-nylon, and using velcro to close it up
> instead of a zipper. I was thinking about adding a small patch of netting
> above my face to control the condensation. Do you guys think that will be
> enough, or will I loose too much heat through the opening? I could just use
> ripstop but I would like the extra waterproofing.
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i`m planning to make some thing like that to go over the down hammock i just finished. my plan is that the ends (about 15-20 from each end) will be water

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i`m planning to make some thing like that to go over the down hammock i just finished.
my plan is that the ends (about 15-20" from each end) will be water proof.
the bottom will probably be water proof (but at least DWR).
the top part (probably starting at the hammock`s top edge), will be 1.1 nylon w/ a DWR treatment.
still working on a few details like the entrance part, but i belive i`m right w/ rick on the velcro thing. i`ve never sewed a zipper in anything, but then last year i`d never sewed anything really <G>. tim

Nathan Ruth <fishfarmer316@...> wrote: I am also thinking about making making a travel pod as my next DIY project.
I was thinking about using sil-nylon, and using velcro to close it up
instead of a zipper. I was thinking about adding a small patch of netting
above my face to control the condensation. Do you guys think that will be
enough, or will I loose too much heat through the opening? I could just use
ripstop but I would like the extra waterproofing.

What about making your travelpod out of uncoated 1.1 oz silnylon like Rick s, then spraying silicone on the bottom and ends for rain spray (like Ed recommends

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What about making your travelpod out of uncoated 1.1 oz silnylon like
Rick's, then spraying silicone on the bottom and ends for rain spray
(like Ed recommends for windproofing his hammock bottoms for cool
weather). No extra sewing of waterproof bottoms and ends to breathable
top fabrics this way.
My single layer silnylon hammock is still going strong by the way.
Gregg

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> My Travel Pod is made of 1.1 oz ripstop. It really stops wind quite
> well and when it becomes moist from my breath it soaks through the
> fabric and dries in the wind.
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> http://www.imrisk.com/hammock/travelpod.htm